Table Of Content

Scientific Publications of the American Museum of Natural History V O American Museum Novitates S S SYSTEMATIC MAMMALOGY Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History & Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History C A CONTRIBUTIONS IN HONOR OF Publications Committee R L Robert S. Voss, Chair E GUY G. MUSSER T O Board of Editors N Jin Meng, Paleontology : C Lorenzo Prendini, Invertebrate Zoology O EDITED BY Robert S. Voss, Vertebrate Zoology N T Peter M. Whiteley, Anthropology R I ROBERT S. VOSS AND MICHAEL D. CARLETON B Managing Editor U T Mary Knight I O N S Submission procedures can be found at http://research.amnh.org/scipubs H O N Complete lists of all issues of Novitates and Bulletin are available on the web (http:// O library.amnh.org/pubs). Inquire about ordering printed copies via e-mail from scipubs@ R I N amnh.org or via standard mail from: G American Museum of Natural History—Scientific Publications, M Central Park West at 79th St., U S New York, NY 10024. S E Tel:(212) 769-5545. Fax: (212) 769-5009. R ∞ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (permanence of paper). A M N H B U L L E T I N 3 3 1 On the cover: Guy G. Musser and his helpers on the trail in north-central Sulawesi. Photographed 2 by a passing Australian backpacker (name unknown), 0 0 30 July 1974. 9 BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SYSTEMATIC MAMMALOGY: CONTRIBUTIONS IN HONOR OF GUY G. MUSSER Edited by ROBERT S. VOSS Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy) American Museum of Natural History MICHAEL D. CARLETON Department of Vertebrate Zoology National Museum of Natural History BULLETINOFTHEAMERICANMUSEUMOFNATURALHISTORY Number 331,450pp., 154figures, 51tables IssuedDecember 15,2009 CopyrightEAmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory2009 ISSN0003-0090 CONTENTS Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ROBERT S. VOSS Chapter 1.Theysortoutlikenutsandbolts:ascientificbiography ofGuyG.Musser. . . 4 MICHAEL D. CARLETON Chapter 2. Taxonomy, distribution, and natural history of the genus Heteromys (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) in central and eastern Venezuela, with the description of a new species from the Cordillera de la Costa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 ROBERT P. ANDERSON AND ELIE´CER E. GUTIE´RREZ Chapter3.ReviewoftheOryzomyscouesicomplex(Rodentia:Cricetidae:Sigmodontinae) in western Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 MICHAEL D. CARLETON AND JOAQUIN ARROYO-CABRALES Chapter 4. The antiquity of Rhizomys and independent acquisition of fossorial traits in subterranean muroids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 LAWRENCE J. FLYNN Chapter 5. A new species of Reithrodontomys, subgenus Aporodon (Cricetidae: Neotominae), from the highlands of Costa Rica, with comments on Costa Rican and Panamanian Reithrodontomys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 ALFRED L. GARDNER AND MICHAEL D. CARLETON Chapter 6. Phylogenetic relationships of harpyionycterine megabats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 NORBERTO P. GIANNINI, FRANCISCA CUNHA ALMEIDA, AND NANCY B. SIMMONS Chapter7.Anewgenusandspeciesofsmall‘‘tree-mouse’’(Rodentia,Muridae)relatedto the Philippine giant cloud rats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 LAWRENCER.HEANEY,DANILOS.BALETE,ERICA.RICKART,M.JOSEFAVELUZ,AND SHARON A. JANSA Chapter 8. Biodiversity and biogeography of themoss-miceof New Guinea: a taxonomic revision of Pseudohydromys (Muridae: Murinae) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 KRISTOFER M. HELGEN AND LAUREN E. HELGEN Chapter9.Systematicrevisionofsub-SaharanAfricandormice(Rodentia:Gliridae).Part II: Description of a new species of Graphiurus from the central Congo Basin, including morphologicalandecologicalnichecomparisonswithG.crassicaudatusandG.lorraineus 314 MARY ELLEN HOLDEN AND REBECCA S. LEVINE Chapter 10. Descriptions of new species of Crocidura (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) from mainland Southeast Asia, with synopses of previously described species and remarks on biogeography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 PAULINA D. JENKINS, DARRIN P. LUNDE, AND CLIVE B. MONCRIEFF Chapter 11. The six opossums of Fe´lix de Azara: identification, taxonomic history, neotype designations, and nomenclatural recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 ROBERT S. VOSS, PHILIP MYERS, FRANC¸OIS CATZEFLIS, ANA PAULA CARMIGNOTTO, AND JOSEFINA BARREIRO Chapter12.SkullanddentitionofWilleumyskorthi,nov.gen.etsp.,acricetidrodentfrom the Oligocene (Orellan) of Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434 JOHN H. WAHLERT 2 PREFACE morphology was largely adequate to this task. All you had to do was look at the Cut in stone over the entrance to the specimens (take the facts into your own Ruthven Museum at the University of hands), be able to see what you were Michigan are the words ‘‘Go to nature, take looking at, and have the mother wit to the facts into your own hands; look, and see draw the right conclusions. Most of us are for yourself.’’ Like many other museum influenced, to some extent at least, by what graduate students, I came to regard those others have written or said about a long- words (attributed to Louis Agassiz) as the standing research problem. One of Guy’s essence of what we were being taught to do. great gifts, I think, is to be undeceived by Later, I came to appreciate how well they the opinions of others and to focus on the described Guy’s research. facts. He also documented those facts GuywasstillahugepresenceatMichigan, (patterns of morphological character varia- although hehadnotbeenthereinpersonfor tion) and explained their taxonomic inter- 10 years, when I arrived in 1976. His pretation with exceptional clarity. His pub- specimens (impeccably prepared) filled doz- lications set new standards in systematic ens of drawers in the collection, his field mammalogy. notes (inimitably written) occupied several In organizing Guy’s festscrift, Mike and I inches of shelf space in Hooper’s office, and decided that it would be more fitting to have his publications (incomparably illustrated) just a few substantive contributions than to already took up most of a file drawer in the have a larger number of shorter papers. As Mammal Division library. His was an it turned out, a ‘‘few’’ substantive contribu- inspiring but daunting example for a neo- tions was plenty, as the heft of this volume phyte researcher. attests. Among the many people who Guy’s career beganjust as theinfluenceof deserve our thanks for helping make this the New Systematics was beginning to wane. project a reality, we are particularly grateful An earlier generation of mammalogists, encouraged by population geneticists to to Nancy Simmons (who husbanded the interprettaxonomicdifferencesasgeographic Taxonomic Mammalogy funds to pay for variation, had indulged in an orgy of most of it), to the late Karl Koopman (who lumping, synonymizing hundreds of valid endowedtheTaxonomicMammalogyFund), taxa into undiagnosable polytypic ‘‘species,’’ to Mary Knight (who midwifed the manu- often without even a token analysis of script through the production process), and relevant data. The most egregious lumping to our many colleagues who reviewed was perpetrated by authors of continentwide manuscripts of individual chapters (ac- checklists, notably Ellerman and Morrison- knowledged by name, unless anonymous, Scott (in Eurasia) and Angel Cabrera (in therein). Supplementary funds that helped SouthAmerica).Muchoftheprogressinlate defray publication costs were generously 20th-centurymammaliansystematicsconsist- provided by the City College of New York, ed in rediscovering the diversity of species by the Division of Mammals at the Field then concealed by synonymy, and in provid- Museum, and by the Department of Verte- ing the diagnostic tools—new characters and brate Zoology and the Office of Research ways of analyzing them—by which that and Collections at the National Museum of diversity could be documented. Natural History. More than any other mammalogist of his Robert S. Voss generation, Guy showed that comparative October 16, 2009 3